Daisy, I guess I am one of the "really bad" at it ones. One problem I have been having lately is in cooking. Sometimes I need to double a recipe or half it or figure out teaspoons to a cup, etc., and it is terrible! As long as the food ends up somewhat edible...

As regards Maths and cooking, I guess it might help if you are making half quantities or double quantities to rewrite the list of ingredients and use a calculator to work out how much of everything you need before you start.

I am not discalculic myself, but I find that I get tied in knots trying to half or double quantites while cooking. Usually half way through the recipie I forget that I am using half quantities or double quantities, and it then all goes horribly wrong!

I got an E in my maths GCSE. Woo, I got the lowest mark avalible to Intermediate level. My maths teacher never taught me anything but techniques to work out stuff that wasn't on the paper. I don't give a rat's ass about maths, useless to me.

pinkparrot wrote:The one thing I really like about maths is that the answer is either right or wrong - it makes the rest of life look like a huge mist.

That's exactly why I like it. Maths is the ultimate logic, there are no inconsistencys, grey areas, or maters of opinion. Any two answers that arn't the same have to come from different problems. It's the only thing in the known universe that is totaly unmistaking and relliable.